In a big relief to lakhs of families, the State Cabinet on Wednesday
approved regularisation of houses built on 30×40 sq.ft sites in urban
areas.

This is applicable to sites located within 18 km of Bruhat
Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) limits and within 10 km of the
Belagavi, Kalaburagi, Hubballi-Dharwad, Mangaluru, and Mysuru city
corporation limits. It is also applicable to dwellings within a radius
of 5 km, 10 km and 3 km of all city municipalities, town municipal
councils and town panchayats, respectively.

Briefing reporters on
the decisions taken at the Cabinet meeting presided by Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T.B. Jayachandra
said the physically-challenged, people from Scheduled Caste and
Scheduled Tribe communities, and ex-servicemen were eligible to
regularise their sites by paying a penalty of Rs. 5,000. Those from
General category will need to pay Rs. 10,000 for 30×40 sites, he said.

The
State legislature had passed the Karnataka Revenue (Second Amendment)
Bill, 2017 to amend section 94CC of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964
for regularisation of houses built on 30×40 feet sites.

Meanwhile,
the authorities have decided to outsource construction of four lakh
houses to a private agency this year. This is owing to staff shortage in
the Housing Department. The agency will be hired for the next three
years, Mr. Jayachandra said.

The
Cabinet also approved new cadre and recruitment rules for high school
teachers till 2020 on merit-cum-reservation basis. Teachers will be
recruited directly on the basis of marks. There will be no written test
or interview.

Tenders amounting Rs. 138.69 crore were approved for
developing a new campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences,
Shivamogga. The 600-acre campus will be developed in two years, the
Minister said.

Other important decisions

Recommendation
to Centre to include Namasudra, Pod/Poudra and Rajbashi castes in list
of Schedule Castes of Karnataka. They are migrants from Bangladesh
settled in Sindhanur, Raichur district

Rs. 22.85 crore for construction of Arogya Bhavan on Magadi Road in Bengaluru

Construction of mega market in Basavana Bagewadi at Rs. 32.73 crore

Rs. 51.40 cr for construction of barrage across Tungabhadra river at Gharbhagudi, Ranebennur